THE COU" - i.
STORIES IN PASSING.
beating the entire county and selling
hiil to farmers and business men in lieu
of ice, which was short last winter. It
He is principal of tho high Echool in is expected that the hail is there in
one of the smaller cities in Nebra ka a quantities large enough to freeze all the
tall, lean. narrow shouldered, unmarried picnic cream for the Fourth of July
man, who of late years has studied much.
exercised little and rather fallen out of
the habit of giving much attention 1o
his personal appearance. When be
came up to attend the universi'y sum
mer school some oqo persuaded him to
enter the "gym. c'ats," opnto bith
ladies and gentlemen. So the second
Such a correspondent cannot afford
to be left unnoticed.
Arejou awakened by tho Beven o'
clock wh'stles in the morning? Mwt
Lincoln people are. But did jou ever
notice In w differently Bupg'ttive they
appeal to jou as you lie ther half
day of the school he dropped into the awake? Toe shrill Journal whistle
armory at the hour of the claf b and waB geceml'y founds the prjludo. Hut i o-
somewhat taken back to tind about haps jou 'o not hear it. It is not a
thirty lady teachers, in the gj mtaaium very strong whiB'Ie and scarcely reaches
costume, receiving the p.-elimanary re- niu.hpatt tl ebusinets part of the city,
marks from tho instructor, lie asked A factory wh'Btle, louder and deeper, an-
if this was the general class and was 6wers ai.d ib followed uy ote
answered that it was. He s'gnirud bis
intention of entering and ua given a
place in the lino of joung ladies'. After
the first fejv remaiks the instructor
gave the explanat'oa for the first exer
cise.
down ia
the railway jardr. Then the city
whistl s. which are supposed to run on
accurate time, turn Ioose-the South
street water station stirting, low, dis
tant faraway, as if of some hidden lo
camot've among the hills south of town.
'You niiy remove your cint," she The M btrtet pumping house takes up
said to the principal from tho small tbe Terrain-olo long, bign strain mat
tnirn. ihi man did not obe v but aD- awakes the whole o! East Lincoln to
peared ill at e.se, and the instructor
repeated the command. Still the prin
cipal made no iuovo nor said a word.
At the th'rJ command the man left
the line and walkiog across to the in
structor, whispered blushingly: "I
must be excused this time. The whole
consciousness -and men passes on tne
sound to that of the P street station.
This whistle is one that once heard is
never forgot t n. I heard that whistle
es a boy yeais ago, and went away and
long after came back and its first sound
awakened the memories of ten years be-
Vesuvius Vesuvius by moonlight. See
how silvery everything is about tho top
and dark down along tho coast You
can just make out a ship or two here
in tho bay. I liko it because it gives
the old volcano as inactive. Generally
the pictures have it smoking away or
covered with tho lurid glare of tho glow
ing water. But this is just as I remem
ber it that night in June, two years ago,
when tho Professor took us all up."
Just as the party was b.eaking up,
the young lady in whitj organdie caught
Baldy (Baldwin Alvard is bis full rnine)
and led him to the picture in the li
Lrary.
"I'm so interested in this blue print,"
she said sweet'y. "It reminds me bo
much of some mount. ia orpictuioo
some mountain I've a en or beard about.
Won't you tell u.e wLat it is? There is
no name on tho print."
"That that a mountn'n!" said
Baldy. -Why. that's a hill back of our
Lou to at home. I took it not long ago
when I was down. I got too near cr
got the focus wrong or somi thing, an I
that's what makes it loom up so big.
This dark is the orchard and these
white dots down here in the foreground
are stone benchm under the trees.
Uow'd you ever think it a raountsin."
And the blonde young lady in the whit?
organdie went Lome wondering grcnt'y
in her mind.
listened silently and let him go.
by the wind. Last week two bojsdis
covered some of this hail in a ravine,
enough to freeze a gallon of ice cream.
Since then boys and men have been
ates to
tickets.
Lincoln, Neb
tuirist piints bofo-e biivlng
A. S. Fielding, C. P. ifcT. A
arm of my shirt is ripped looee and I'm fore. It has a low, vibrating, far
afraid the pin at the shoulder will never reaching voice of its own, that reminds
bold." 3 ou dreamily of a" steamboat whistle far
The man epoko in a whisper.but those up the river near your Mississippi home,
experienced school teachers were accus- 1 his whistle, acting as a sort of a last
tomedti whispering and heard every call, Eounds twice and is heard over all
word. And amid a perfect chorus of the city and far into the surrounding
laughter the principal got out of that country. And then just as its voice dies
armory and has lost all interest in pbjsi- away, from out the disUnco toward
cal culture. the Havelock shops ccmes a low, far-
away whistle the echo of the morning
They wera sitt ng in tha hammock melody. And as it dies away in your
out under the apple trees, watchirg the cars jou turn over for a half h ur snoozo
eun sink behind tho hills. before the breakfast hour.
"Surely jou doa't mean tLat, Mao?'
he said in a slow, low voice, facingabout rn tje library of the fraternity house
toward her. was a large blue print of bjidb djouo-
The girl looked out t iward the sunnt tain or other, framed in gold an 1 white
and was silent. and making a very prt tty etTect. But
"You can't mean it, Mary," the fellow the print had faded a little and was not
went on passionately. "You don't know very distinct, just the white outline of
what you are saying. Y'ou dou't know a peiJk standing up above the rauge,
what it wdl mean to mc. Why, it with a dark, indistinct base that might
msans everything. I can't stay here sund for a valley, a bay, or a simple
with you so nsar and know that every- plain.
thing has changed. It means that I "That's Pike's Peak," said one of tho
must change my planB give up my young men to the blonde young lady in
position, which I had depended on to white organdie at a party they wero glv-
take my sister through school, and hunt jCg at the house. "You see the peak
up something else. It'll be a little hard covered with snow print wa? taken in
on my mother.toD, and but we'll not winter, you kuow. The cog wieds right
peak of those things You mean it? around this knob here, and you strike
Very well. I'm glad you've told me Windy Point. About here is where I
now. You shall always have my re- feI down a ravine and nearly cracked
sped for doing so if you think thai my head on a boulder. Right below
way. I Bhall remember you always and here is Manitou and farther out on this
and good-bye." And the young man piain ;9 Colorado Springs. Ye?, it makes
turned and left her, but his face was a very pretty picture and its about tho
pale and the lines of his mouth hard- ony one 0f the Peak taken in winter
set. that I ever saw. Somebody gave it to
And sitting there in the hammock Baldy whan he was shooting geese
with the sinking sun just catching around there."
her wavy hair with a touch of gold, she The couple passed on and presently
another young man stopped before the
picture.
"Have you seen this blue piint of
Baldy's. He picked it up back east
somewhere this summer. lis Mount
Washington, you know. Here are the
hotels down here, you see, in the valley,
with the mountains at their back staad-
A tramp had applied just at noon at
the boarding house, and, beiig given
something, sat down on the rear side
steps to eat it, where he could be seen
by those in the dinin; room.
"We've got a now boarder, I see,"
said the talkative joung man in the
crash suit to tne student on his right.
The strange young lady who hid jutt
come in as he ceaaaJ spnking looked
up quick'y and than her ejejfell con
sciously. But the youcg man did not
observe and went oo.
"Yes, wa seem to bj over stacked with
this kind, now, No end to them this
t'me of the year. If I were landlady I'd
fire 'em bodily coming especially at this
hour of the day, just when tvrryLo ly's
busy with regular boarders."
The young laly across tho table
blushed and moved uneasily, helping
herself to the patato.'B nervously tnd
almost timidly.
"Nobody ever eeenn ta refuse that
kind of boarder, either," went on the
young man. "Easy way of getting
through the world, isn't it. When we're
broke, Will, we'll have to try it. We
ought to beat our way as easily as these
'outside Loarders' that make tbU house.'
Just then the stranger opposite drop
ped her hoad, aroe hastily, and alter
nately b'ushicg and turning pale, left
tbe dining room, while the tramp moved
off down the ally.
HARRY G.3HEDD.
A Buropean 'I our.
CostHro more thun one tiken in this
coun ry-overjthirg being take into
c ii'ileriit on. Thousand of ArnOiicajM
tro finding th's o it ocory year by act'Jii)
exp'rien'o B-fir Hnang'n; for yiu
summer trip cill at H Si M city otllco.
corner t) n id IViifi itro-tr, h-io
ste-iimhin bmt'is. t'lkfti and full iufor
nu.t.tm wi 1 Le fun i-' ed.
CtEOKRi: W I'NNK1.L,
(' l AT. A.
"A man often says: "My btuinus is
different from any other kind; it's almost
impossible to advertise my business." That
remark shows a misunderstanding of what
advertising is. It is making a business knows
to those who ought to know it. This can
be done with any business.
AMERICAN EXGHAMGE NATIONAL BANK.
LINCOLN, NEB.
A.J. Sawyeu,
Vice pre ident
D. (;. Wish.
Ast Cashier.
There is a man down in Plato, Ne
braska, wherever that it, who has a
great future before him, as a liar. He
is already launching into newspaper
work, and thus his success is assured. A
little varn that he Bent to one of the
stato dailies gave him a reputation at inghighup, even above all the other
once. It was to the effect that on April mountains. Its all too far away to see
23rd a heavy hail and wind storm oc- anythicg distinctly, but it makes a
curred near Plato. Much of the hail grand old sight, just as it is." The
wa as large as tin cans and in the gul- young lady in white smiled apprecia
tes and ravenes was covered out of tively and they begaa the waltz,
sieht by leaves and rubbish blown about Later in the evening a third young
TO THE NATIONAL EDUCATION
AL MEETING, JULY C 10, 1C97.
Take the Great Rock Island Route to
Milwaukee, Wis., to attend above meet
in?. A lovely lake ride it you so choose.
Will btt the largest National Education
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your station or address for particulars
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Chicago.
REMARKABLY LOW RATES.
To Golorado, Utah and California,
will ba offered by the Burlington Route,
June 20 and 20,and July 1,2 and 3.
Open to all homeseeker, healtbseeker,
tourist.
Call at B. & M. depot or city office,
corner Tenth and O streets, Lincoln,
Neb.
At 117 so. Tenth.
geatleman explained the picture to a
lady friend.
"You've been abroad? No? Then
you don't recognize this as Mount
Ib located the city ticket of the North
western line tbe greatest railroad
system touching Lincoln, with shortest
mileage to Chicago and St. Paul and
making quickest time. Get our low
I. M. Raymond,
President.
S. II. BUKNMAM,
Cashier.
CAPITAL 2T),000 SURPLUS 82,"i,XW
Direct us -I. M. Raymond, S. II.
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bam.
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Worth of millinery
bought and to bo sild
at one quarter the regti
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W. WILLIAMS
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